Mattel has not released an official list of what words are banned - but countless term are no longer acceptable on Scrabble's online dictionary.
Traditionally, the meaning of words in Scrabble does not matter, instead the focus is on whether the word is correct according to a Collins English Dictionary.
However the Official Scrabble Words - otherwise known as the Scrabble Dictionary - is the ultimate authority of eligible words.
It no longer includes homophobic slurs such as the 'q-word' and racist terms such as the 'w-word'.
One BAME player, Ebi Sosseh, from Bournemouth, earlier said offensive words had been used against him, but said changing the rules would be 'trivial'.
He said: 'I used to be initially uncomfortable when words like "w**" used to be played against me.
'That subsided very quickly when I rationalised that we were engaged with a game of words.'
Mr Sosseh added that he wanted to focus on education rather than censoring.
Slang terms for Aboriginal people, baldie, baywop, baywops, boche, boches, bogtrotter, bogtrotters, bohunk, bohunks, bubba, bubbas, buckra, buckras, bumboy, bumboys, butches, offensive terms for Latin-American women, coloreds, coloureds, crip, crips, crumblies, culchie, culchier, culchies, culchiest, culshie, culshier, culshies, culshiest, c***, c****, highly-offensive terms for people with dark skin, highly-offensive term for Lesbians, dogan, dogans, variations of the homophobic slur f*****, fatso, fatsoes, fatsos, gadje, gadjo, ginzo ginzoes, offensive slurs meaning 'non-Jewish', graybeard, graybeards, greybeard, greybeards, gringa, gringas, gringo, gringos, haole, haoles, hicksville, hicksvilles, honkey, honkeys, honkie, honkies, honky, hos, hunkey, hunkeys, hunkie, hunkies, jailbait, jailbaits, jesuit, jesuitic, jesuitical, jesuitically, jesuitism, jesuitisms, jesuitries, jesuitry, jesuits, jew, jewed, jewing, jews, jigaboo, jigaboos, kanaka, kanakas, les, lesbo, lesbos, leses, lez, lezzes, lezzie, lezzies, lezzy, mick, micks, mulatto, mulattoes, mulattos, nance, nances, nancier, nancies, nanciest, nancy, the N-word and other variations, nonpapist, nonpapists, ofay, ofays, papism, papisms, papist, papistic, papistries, papistry, papists, pepsi, pepsis, picaninnies, picaninny, piccaninnies, piccaninny, pickaninnies, pickaninny, pickney, pickneys, polack, polacks, pommie, pommies, pommy, poncey, poncier, ponciest, poncy, poofier, poofiest, poofs, pooftah, pooftahs, poofter, poofters, poofy, poontang, poontangs, poove, pooves, poperies, popery, popish, popishly, raghead, ragheads, redneck, rednecks, schvartze, schvartzes, schwartze, schwartzes, sheeney, sheeneys, sheenie, sheenies, shegetz, shemale, shemales, shicksa, shicksas, shiksa, shiksas, shikse, shikseh, shiksehs, shikses, shkotzim, various racial slurs for black people, skimo, skimos, spaz, spazz, spazzes, ethnic slurs for Latin American people, highly-offensive terms for Indigenous North American women, vendu, vendus, wetback, wetbacks, whiteys, whities, racist slur w** and its variants, highly-offensive Jewish slurs.
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Traditionally, the meaning of words in Scrabble does not matter, instead the focus is on whether the word is correct according to a Collins English Dictionary.
However the Official Scrabble Words - otherwise known as the Scrabble Dictionary - is the ultimate authority of eligible words.
It no longer includes homophobic slurs such as the 'q-word' and racist terms such as the 'w-word'.
One BAME player, Ebi Sosseh, from Bournemouth, earlier said offensive words had been used against him, but said changing the rules would be 'trivial'.
He said: 'I used to be initially uncomfortable when words like "w**" used to be played against me.
'That subsided very quickly when I rationalised that we were engaged with a game of words.'
Mr Sosseh added that he wanted to focus on education rather than censoring.
Offensive terms that faced being cut from Scrabble competitions
The exact list of banned words has not been released. Previously proposed offensive terms included:Slang terms for Aboriginal people, baldie, baywop, baywops, boche, boches, bogtrotter, bogtrotters, bohunk, bohunks, bubba, bubbas, buckra, buckras, bumboy, bumboys, butches, offensive terms for Latin-American women, coloreds, coloureds, crip, crips, crumblies, culchie, culchier, culchies, culchiest, culshie, culshier, culshies, culshiest, c***, c****, highly-offensive terms for people with dark skin, highly-offensive term for Lesbians, dogan, dogans, variations of the homophobic slur f*****, fatso, fatsoes, fatsos, gadje, gadjo, ginzo ginzoes, offensive slurs meaning 'non-Jewish', graybeard, graybeards, greybeard, greybeards, gringa, gringas, gringo, gringos, haole, haoles, hicksville, hicksvilles, honkey, honkeys, honkie, honkies, honky, hos, hunkey, hunkeys, hunkie, hunkies, jailbait, jailbaits, jesuit, jesuitic, jesuitical, jesuitically, jesuitism, jesuitisms, jesuitries, jesuitry, jesuits, jew, jewed, jewing, jews, jigaboo, jigaboos, kanaka, kanakas, les, lesbo, lesbos, leses, lez, lezzes, lezzie, lezzies, lezzy, mick, micks, mulatto, mulattoes, mulattos, nance, nances, nancier, nancies, nanciest, nancy, the N-word and other variations, nonpapist, nonpapists, ofay, ofays, papism, papisms, papist, papistic, papistries, papistry, papists, pepsi, pepsis, picaninnies, picaninny, piccaninnies, piccaninny, pickaninnies, pickaninny, pickney, pickneys, polack, polacks, pommie, pommies, pommy, poncey, poncier, ponciest, poncy, poofier, poofiest, poofs, pooftah, pooftahs, poofter, poofters, poofy, poontang, poontangs, poove, pooves, poperies, popery, popish, popishly, raghead, ragheads, redneck, rednecks, schvartze, schvartzes, schwartze, schwartzes, sheeney, sheeneys, sheenie, sheenies, shegetz, shemale, shemales, shicksa, shicksas, shiksa, shiksas, shikse, shikseh, shiksehs, shikses, shkotzim, various racial slurs for black people, skimo, skimos, spaz, spazz, spazzes, ethnic slurs for Latin American people, highly-offensive terms for Indigenous North American women, vendu, vendus, wetback, wetbacks, whiteys, whities, racist slur w** and its variants, highly-offensive Jewish slurs.
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